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rejoicing in such blessed result of her
visit to that city, and never to forget
the pastor whose prayer for the stranger
had an issue of which he had not
dreamed, and which will give new slim
ulus to the fervor of his interest in behalf
of strangers and visitors there from dis
tant lands. Cannot other preachers see
their own duty and privilege in the fact
above related2 Il was a stranger, and
ye took Me in.n
A Prayer.
A lady, who has used the. following
old and beautiful prayer during many
years of happy married life, feels that
were its spirit in the minds of those who
enter the relation of husband and wife
there would be less work for divorce
courts.
"Lord, bless and preserve that dear
person whom thou has chosen to be my
husband. let his life be long and
blessed, comfortable and holy, and let
me also become great blessing and
comfort unto him, a sharer in all his
sorrows, a meet helper in all his acci-
dents and changes in the world; make
me amiable forever in his eyes, and for
ever dear to him. Unite his heart to me
in the dearest love and holiness, and
mine to him in all sweetness, charity and
compliance; keep me from all ungentle-
ness and observation-disclosures and unreason-
ableness of passion and humor, and
make me humble and obedient useful
and observant, that we may delight in
each other according to thy blessed
word, and both of us may rejoice in
thee, having our portion in the love md
service of God forever. Amen"
What to Teach tho Heather.
If live heather wants to know what
has become of his dead ancestors, let
prompt reply e: 81 cannot say more
than that the Judge of all the earth will
do right and that there never can be In
this world or the next, any just cause
for complaining of Gods dealings with
any human SOUL" and there stop. If
distressed Pagan mother wants 10 know
what has become of her dead child, let
the precious words of Christ be quoted,
who said: "Of such is the kingdom OF
heaven" No man, preacher or layman,
We want no new machinery. We want
workmen as missionaries who are not
ashamed or afraid to teach as Christ
taught, and who will not insist on teach
ing some other way Independent.
Perhaps little straightforward
preaching and teaching of the command
of Christ to his disciples, to 60 into all
the world and preach the gospel to every
creature, on the part of both preachers
and theological seminarians, leaving all
inferences about the future state OF the
heathcn to take care of themselves,
would serve to increase the number OF
missionary students and the amount of
missionary contributions as well. The
most successful soldiers are those who
at home or abroad, can safely go further
in either case. The unrevealed ways of
God in the future world are past finding
out. We say let the American Board
travel in the paths of revealed truth.
Let them ask the help of men to enter
the open fields of the world in order to
preach the gospel to every creature,
leaving all their speculations about the
dead and future probation behind them.
obey orders without asking questions,
and the most successful propagandists of
Christianity have been those who
preached the facts of the gospel and did
not split hairs alb ut questions that no
human being knows anything about.
.-[Philadelphia Times.
Argument may silence an objector,
but scarcely ever wins the heart. 1t is
the exhibition of divine love that melts.
The darkness of night is scattered i'm
pc ceptibly and noiselcssly by the rising
sun.-IW. Cochrane.